Daniel Lyons Quotes
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
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Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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You've got a couple of same-sex guys kissing, do you 'like' that? Well, that makes me want to throw up. To me, I would punch 'vomit' not 'like', but they don't give you that option on Facebook.
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Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes, And blesseth her with his two happy hands.
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
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Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
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I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
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The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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Magazines tell you you should be a size zero. Excuse me I don't want to be a zero about anything.
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And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.
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I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.
